Takeshis'
a TAKESHI KITANO picture
Synopsis
Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show biz celebrity. But his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating auditions, Kitano seems to mysteriously fall into a fantasy state highlighted by aspects of Beat’s real life and violent on-screen persona…
Stills
Press
"Japanese cult director Takeshi Kitano baffled and enthralled Venice with TAKESHIS', a surreal send-up of his eclectic career."
REUTERS
"Twisted fantasy riff on what it means to be Takeshi Kitano. Visual inventiveness and surreal gags..."
SCREEN
"A playful essay on dreams and the cinema which is made from them... recalls the late Fellini's autobiographic charm."
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU
"In TAKESHIS', Kitano turns the nightmares of his own survival of mega-celebrity into black comedy. A playful reflection over the mixture of art and life."
BERLINER ZEITUNG
"An entertaining trompe l'oeil in which Takeshi Kitano is seen in double, mixing reality and fiction, self-derision and fantasy."
LE MONDE
Festivals
& Awards
Venice Film Festival
In Competition
Toronto International Film Festival
Vienna Film Festival
London Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Takeshi Kitano | |
|---|---|
| Tetsu Watanabe | |
| Kayoko Kishimoto | |
| Ren Ohsugi | |
| Kotomi Kyôno | |
| Susumu Terajima | |
| Akihiro Miwa | |
| Naomasa Musaka | |
| Kôichi Ueda |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano |
|---|---|
| Writer | Takeshi Kitano |
| Producers | Masayuki Mori, Takioyoshida |
| Line Producer | Shinji Komiya |
| Director of Cinematography | Katsumi Yanagijima |
| Editor | Yoshinori Ota |
| Music | Nagi |
| Sound | Senji Horiuchi |
Releases